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End of the Earth : Voyages to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical prose, Matthiessen describes the wildlife he encoun ...Show more
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a centu ...Show more
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. His son Lucius inv ...Show more
The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Once regarded as messengers from heaven, presaging longevity and good fortune, cranes appear in the ancient myth and legend of many cultures. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth and air upon which their species - and ours too - depends for survival. ...Show more
The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen
48.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high i ...Show more
The Cloud Forest by Peter Matthiessen
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
'Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition' - Stephen Jay Gould Peter Mattiessen has long been known for his travels to some of the remotest lands on earth, most notably recorded in The Snow Leopard. The Cloud Forest brings to vivid life a South American journey that took him from th ...Show more
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen
38.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin nature classics
In this classic volume, Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; and the area' ...Show more
The Wind Birds - Shorebirds of North America by Peter Matthiessen; Robert Gillmor (Illustrator); Kevin J. Zimmer (Introduction by)
45.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Curious Naturalist Ser.
Under the Mountain Wall by Peter Matthiessen
27.99 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: History
'Matthiessen is a talented writer and imaginative traveller and a man of true originality' - Independent In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to ...Show more
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